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It follows that if Sue and Bill have inalienable rights to life, they have a moral obligation to opt for life and, therefore, are not acting in a morally defensible way if they, on grounds of their preferences alone, attempt to persuade others to assist them in comfortably ending their lives.
Inalienable rights are rights entailed by very basic moral principles which must be respected (except in cases where punishment is morally required or where the temporary suspension of rights is necessary for reason justified by natural law—as in cases where the social order would otherwise be irreparably damaged (viz.
An inalienable right would never be a right to possess this or that particular object, but would instead be a right to live and move within a given setting to acquire certain kinds of objects from a wide range of objects of types essential for worthwhile human existence.
Inalienable vs. Alienable Possession Even though Guarani does not have special morphol- ogy to distinguish alienable and inalienable nouns, some formal aspects indicate that there is such a dis- tinction.
Contrast 3b and 4b, which represent normal expressions of alienable posses- sion with the ungrammatical sentences in 3a and 4a, in which inalienable possession is encoded with a verb of possession.
Possession and Different Inalienable Noun Classes Before I discuss the grammatical import of the se- mantics of the different classes of inalienable nouns, a few words are in order about their semantic differ- ences.
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